rpm2cpio: where is it?

lang2 · 2006-04-08 17:30:06

which package has this?

Did pacman -Ss rpm and didn't find it. Couldn't find in aur either.

lang2

rztka · 2006-04-08 17:54:44

rpmunpack can do the same i guess..
http://www.archlinux.org/packages.php?id=749

lang2 · 2006-04-08 18:04:04

Thanks rztka.

I've always used atool for unpacking rpm, which depends on rpm2cpio.

McQueen · 2006-04-08 18:42:57

I like running programs from KLIK (installs anything without being root & no worries about dependencies) and it requires rpm2cpio to be installed, but as mentioned the rpmunpack application will suffice nicely. All that is required is a symlink:

# ln -s /usr/bin/rpmunpack /usr/bin/rpm2cpio

lang2 · 2006-04-08 18:52:40

McQueen:
Did what you suggested and tried it again. This is what I got:

cpio: premature end of archive
aunpack: rpm2cpio ... | cpio ...: non-zero return-code

Looks like rpmunpack doesn't extract to stdout.

lilsirecho · 2006-04-09 04:48:06

Wonder how rpmunpack is applied to the rpm2cpio source.

I use KLIK as well and have been unable to find rpm2cpio to install. I believe it has many library items.

Recent upgrades have wiped out some of my KLIK pgms so I need the rpm2cpio thingy.

lilsirecho · 2006-04-09 04:57:22

Take a look at :

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … t=rpm2cpio

May be this reference has all the answers!!

McQueen · 2006-04-09 05:47:13

lilsirecho wrote:

Recent upgrades have wiped out some of my KLIK pgms so I need the rpm2cpio thingy.

Something is amiss here. You can't get any Klik programs to run with rpmunpack and that symlink? I did several just today with no hiccups, but maybe I could try and duplicate your issues if you'd provide some of the application failures.

lilsirecho · 2006-04-09 15:30:16

Confusion exists in my mind concerning the correct method of providing rpm2cpio to satisfy the KLIK requirement.(Not supposed to need install of KLIK elements in my system per their hype!).

I lost my test program galculator.cmg with the latest upgrades due to conflict with glib.c.

I am unable to use KLIK without rpm2cpio installed as is the statement with every attempt to load any program from KLIK.

I have installed the rpmunpack program which is an exe.

I had previously tried snowman's PKGBUILD for rpm2cpio which didn't satisfy KLIK.

I see that neither threads of 2 threads for this program have been unsuccessful in providing the needed rpm2cpio.

I still have opera 9.cmg which functions OK. All attempts to load any other program have failed.

I used to have KLIK install almost any program I selected but no more...

I think I was the first to run KLIK in arch, PCLINUXOS, DSL, and others.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

McQueen · 2006-04-09 16:03:53

There seems to be some level of corruption on your system that is preventing Klik from performing as might be expected. I am running a basic Arch install and literally did nothing other than (1) install rpmunpack and (2) make a symlink to /usr/bin/rpm2cpio. Since then I've been able to install Klik programs with no issues. However, I will note that it is not exactly uncommon to come across various Klik applications that might fail for other reasons that are not local in nature.

Perhaps we might start with a Klik download that I've verified to work on my system and you could then compare to see what if any error you might get.

Scite Programming Editor

lilsirecho · 2006-04-09 16:18:48

As I reported previously, i tried the rpm2cpio install and KLIK didn't recognize it. I now have rpmunpack installed.

When attempting to download Scite, I receive the same request to install rpm2cpio...no mention of rpmunpack.

The references to symlink have no successful concluding statements in either thread.

Confusion!!!!!

I can't even re-install galculator!!!!

McQueen · 2006-04-09 17:05:33

Yeah, I only got the idea for making that symlink after running Klik from a terminal session, and noting that it would not work even after installing rpmunpack, but it did give some very useful output of exactly where it was looking for the rpm2cpio executable. There is more than one path where the symlink can be placed based on that output, although /usr/bin was the most likely candidate and it was included among the search paths mentioned by Klik. The next time I ran Klik it did as expected.

lilsirecho · 2006-04-09 18:17:52

Mcqueen;

Re-ran rpm2cpio from snowman's thread...but had to change its name to PKGBUILD and deleted the md5 sums. Added the rpm2cpio.pl to the same directory.

Was then able to symlink as you posted and get KLIK to OK transfer of cmg's.

Thank you for your support and I hope this info helps others to do likewise.

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rpm2cpio: where is it?

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